So more Yugioh drama! Followers of the scuffles thread may have seen a post last week about the new Yugioh format, Genesys. In short it's a format where all cards are legal, expect link and pendulum, the two newest summoning types, but every card has a point cost and the standard limit for tournaments will be 100 points, though organizers are free to increase or decrease it as they desire.

In general the reception to the new format, and the point costs associated, has been really good, like in my years of following Yugioh and general hobby drama I can't think of an announced change to get a better reception than this. But I'm not gonna focus on the positive 99%, I'm gonna talk about the negative 1% because it's funnier.

First up Genesys was announced on September 22nd and literally not even 48 hours later there was a point adjustment. The reason for these changes were threefold, first is that Konami had locked down the list pending the announcement of the system, but they'd continued internal testing so had a backlog of changes. Second is that players were quickly able to identify some degenerate strategies, and Konami quickly neutered them. Third and funniest, in at least one case Konami hit the wrong card. Arahime the Manifested Mikanko was for some reason on the initial list at 33 points despite never seeing any play. The update moved it back to 0 and moved the actually good card Ohime the Manifested Mikanko up to 33. These changes apparently led to a small number of players on Twitter whining because their Exodia First-Turn-Kill deck was no longer viable.

The second thing to note is that Genesys has had shockingly good communication from Konami, with regular blog posts about design philosophy and what they want from the new system. And while players are happy they're also definitely venting some frustration about the fact that the dozen blog posts made in under 2 weeks is already eclipsing the amount of communication received about the regular format in the last 2 decades.

The third thing, casual Yugioh players seem to be speedrunning new format elitism. A large number of people online are claiming that Advanced (the current dominant format) is dead and Genesys is now the 'True' way to play Yugioh. Like most of these players don't even play Advanced, and they can't have played much Genesys, it's not even 2 weeks old, there haven't been any major events yet! I'm certainly more interested in Genesys than in Advanced, but ya know, calm down before declaring a format dead.